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Date:      Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:28:43 -0700 (MST)
From:      "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        keramida@freebsd.org
Cc:        cvs-src@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src Makefile
Message-ID:  <20071213.122843.-1827343505.imp@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <20071213185208.GA3955@kobe.laptop>
References:  <200712130008.lBD082lO095232@repoman.freebsd.org> <200712112000.lBBK0tc3073820@repoman.freebsd.org> <20071213185208.GA3955@kobe.laptop>

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            Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> writes:
: On 2007-12-11 20:00, Warner Losh <imp@freebsd.org> wrote:
: > Don't assume that make(1) is a bsd-like make program.  It might not
: > be.  This only matters in the early stages of bootstrapping, of
: > course, but gnu make can't handle bsd make Makefiles at all if they
: > use any of the 'dot' directives, which src/Makefile has in abudnance.
: >
: > Revision  Changes    Path
: > 1.343     +5 -3      src/Makefile
: 
: On 2007-12-13 00:08, Warner Losh <imp@freebsd.org> wrote:
: > We don't need to invent BSDMAKE.  ${MAKE} is sufficient.
: >
: > Submitted by: jmallet@
: >
: > Revision  Changes    Path
: > 1.344     +2 -3      src/Makefile
: 
: Cool!  That sounds like a step in a good direction, so we can override
: BSDMAKE in the first stages when /usr/bin/make is, say, gmake :)

Yes. These two changes make it so that one can say 'gerbilmake
buildworld' and have 'gerbilmake' be used for the validation and
bootstrapping FreeBSD's make.

Warner



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